God Plays Dice

"Every five miles an hour faster costs you an extra 30 cents a gallon." From yesterday's New York Times , among others. This...

Baffling crop circles equal pi . The main thing here is a picture of a crop circle which encodes the first ten decimal digits of π. The art...

The Democratic primaries all allocate delegates proportionally; a fair proportion of the Republican delegates are winner-take-all. The conve...

From the Philadelphia City Paper , today's issue: The First Stoned , by Chris Goldstein, is an opinion piece arguing against marijuana p...

John Armstrong is begging me in a comment at at Concurring Opinions to comment on this article from the Associated Press , which makes th...

Pennsylvania's minimum wage was raised from $6.25 to $7.15 effective today. According to the AFL-CIO , "37 percent of Pennsylvania ...

I found a link to this article in the New York Daily News which claims that in New York City, tap water costs 24 cents a gallon. This made...

Earth's inner heat keeps cities afloat . The rocks that the Earth is made of expand when it's warmer, like most materials; thus if...

President? Or Kingmaker? by Patrick Healy, in today's New York Times. Michael Bloomberg, mayor of New York City, recently officially c...

There were six homicides in Philadelphia yesterday. The headline in the Philadelphia Inquirer is "Summer's beginning: Six dead i...

The Million-Dollar Waitress , from Business Week . A waitress in Ohio, Mary Sue Williams, may win the million-dollar grand prize in a CNBC s...

The Best Bets at the Casino , from Forbes.com. (I found this one through the bar at the top of the screen in gmail that delivers me all so...